- Is salty food sweet better than sweet food salty?
- Let's talk about that.
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Good Mythical Morning!
- Armonia in Spanish, johwa in Korean.
Or if you know Klingon
(imitates Klingon speech)
But no matter what language you're speaking
people all across the universe love harmony.
Especially when it comes to the delicious flavors
of sweet and salty.
- Mmmm, but today we're throwing all that harmony crap
to the wind and seeing what happens
when we take classically sweet foods
and make them crazy salty.
And take traditionally salty foods
and make them oh so sugary sweet.
It's time for salty-sweet versus sweet-salty.
Which one's a treat and which one's faulty.
- Okay so a few weeks ago we posted
a series of salty-sweet foods vs sweet-salty food match ups
and you voted on which one you thought we would like better.
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the majority of you guess correctly.
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- All right let's get sweet and salty.
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- Okay, we wanna start by mixing up the sweet and salty
of some favorite foods of ours.
We got salty S'mores and a sweet blooming onion.
Where you wanna go first?
- I don't know because both of them
actually sound really good.
- Uhhh, let's start here.
- [Rhett] You don't seem so sure as you reach over here.
- [Link] I mean if I was a mythical beast
trying to predict ...
Ohh that's a lot of -
- You gotta grab -
- [Link] You have a fork or something?
What are we doing Nicole?
Nicole what did you do to this onion?
- [Nicole] I put it in some funnel cake batter
and then I put powdered sugar over the top
to give you the full funnel cake effect.
And I mixed -
- How did you get a piece?
- You gotta grab it son.
- [Nicole] Rip it.
- You gotta really grab it.
- It's hot.
- [Nicole] Grab it and rip it.
- It's not hot at all.
- It is hot.
- You gotta stick your fingers in more hot things.
- And then what's the dip?
- [Nicole] That's a sweet honey mayo aioli.
- Sweet honey mayo aioli.
- [Nicole] Mayo aioli.
- I love onions.
- That's good.
I like sweet onions.
- It's a little weird.
- You know those little onions
that come in the jars that are like little pearl onions.
- [Nicole] Pearl onions, yeah.
- I'll just go to town on a jar of those by myself.
- But it, yeah, it's not bad. I'd like to -
- I like that.
- I'd like to go in there again.
- I like that.
- Did a little bit more, now -
- But salty chocolate is a thing I already like.
- That's a thing, yeah.
- You're gonna grab your S'more.
But salty marshmallow, that's a bit odd.
And a saltine cracker.
And we'll give it a little dink.
And a sync, an air dink.
- We're air dinking these days.
- Ummm, it's starting to melt. That's good.
(chewing)
- I like a S'more with salty chocolate already.
The salt's not overwhelming.
I like both of these.
- You didn't make it so salty
that it's just a stupid thing.
- [Nicole] I tried to make it a little palatable.
- This is actually, you tried -
- [Nicole] I did.
- To make it an endeavor.
- [Nicole] I did.
- And you may have succeeded.
This is actually a difficult decision that we have to make.
I'm gonna give you the honors of the stab Rhett.
- The stab?
- [Link] While I take another bite of this.
Here's the one thing, I'm really missing
that graham cracker experience.
Cause I really only eat graham crackers in a S'more
and to take that away from this,
It's not that this is bad, it's actually good.
- But it still has a great texture.
I really like both of these.
But I think that this, in my mind
might be an improvement on a regular S'more
and this is not as good as the regular blooming onion.
I prefer the savory blooming onion but I really like this.
- I don't think it's better,
but I do think it gives it a run for its money.
- It's a close, close, this is close guys.
- Did you predict this?
- [Nicole] 53%.
- Oh!
- [Nicole] Of the mythical beasts thought you would like
the salty S'more better.
- Yeah, listen -
- Okay, all right. You got it.
- The thing is, is that, that's so close, 53 to 47.
We're all on the same page. Look at us.
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- Okay, now we're getting into something
that Link holds very sacred, cereal.
And we've made salted flakes instead of frosted flakes
and sugar fish 'n chips.
Okay, so what's going on with these Nicole?
What's the approach here?
- [Nicole] With the sugar fish 'n chips?
- Yeah.
- [Nicole] So I made an eclair batter
and I dipped it into your fish, it's Cod.
And then I made some honey butter french fries
topped off with powdered sugar.
And then the side is a tartar sauce
with a little bit of white chocolate.
- You wanna get just a bite that's got
a little bit of everything?
- I kinda wanna taste it separately.
- [Rhett] I'm going a little bit of everything.
Now it's hard to make that crunchy.
- [Nicole] It gets a little hard
when you got wet fish in the middle, you know.
- Yeah.
(laughter)
- Ohh, that's odd.
- [Rhett] Ummmm.
- Man that's weird.
- Fish needs salt, I've just learned that.
- And it don't need sugar.
I'm really interested in this fry though.
- [Rhett] Wow. The way that the fish -
- [Link] That's tough.
- [Rhett] Is not offset by the sugar.
- Yeah, woo, woo.
- [Rhett] Is not good.
- It actually makes the fishiness, fishy-er.
What about this fry?
- The sweet fries are not bad.
- [Link] They're not good either.
- But they're also not good.
- You really have this expectation
and it just blows it out of the water.
- This is playing with something that you
got an expectation for.
- But so is this.
- Let me pour some of this milk.
- No, actually, this is kinda my thing.
- Oh, sorry.
I forgot.
- [Link] See look at that.
- [Rhett] Well for something that's your thing,
you got a little messy.
- I've never used this thing to do my thing.
- I like salt.
- I'm Rhett, I like salt.
What is this, like speed dating?
- I just anticipate liking this.
- [Link] I've never done speed dating.
- How salty are these?
- [Nicole] You tell me.
(crunching)
- Very.
I mean, they're as salty as frosted flakes are sugary.
- But I like it.
(crunching)
- I don't know, it's like you've been scuba diving all day,
you come up, you get back in the boat,
and you just start eating cereal,
but you're coated in all of that salty.
And the ocean gets in your mouth,
and you ain't gonna stop are ya?
- It's not any saltier than a really salty potato chip.
It's like putting potato chip in milk.
- Yeah, that's stupid.
- [Rhett] Which I might do now.
(laughter)
It's better than this crap.
- Um, yeah, it ain't good at all, and I don't recommend it,
and I'm mad that I had to do it, but -
- I'm still doing it.
- Dang, you're -
- [Nicole] Okay, we're back at that number 53.
53% of the MB's thought you would like
the sugar fish 'n chips better.
- Yeah, that's what I thought.
- It's got a better name
but it doesn't have a better taste, sorry.
- All right, you're 50/50 guys.
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Let's see what happens when the snack aisle flavors
of a 7-Eleven get all freaky Friday up in here.
It's time for fruit salt ups, like a fruit roll up.
Salty.
Versus sugar and vinegar chips.
- We both love salt and vinegar chips.
- I love my wife and she loves them the most.
- Do you love your wife because she likes salt and vinegar?
Or do you love salt and vinegar because your wife does?
Or do you love both independently
and it's just a perfect tri-union?
- I would say the third reason I love my wife
is cause she loves salt and vinegar chips.
- Now they're still very vinegary.
I can sense the vinegar.
- So you just took plain chips and you -
- [Nicole] Yeah I coated them -
- Sugar and vinegarized them.
- [Nicole] Yeah, I coated them in white vinegar powder.
Which is an amazing little ingredient,
and some powdered sugar and some regular sugar.
- Oh, what!
I don't even miss the salt.
- This is weirdly awesome.
- Salt boy doesn't miss the salt.
(laughter)
- Yeah, cause the vinegar makes you think
there's still salt somehow.
- I wonder if your wife would like these?
- We'll never know.
(laughter)
- I'll mail her one.
(crunching)
- I'm gonna mail your wife one chip.
(laughter)
(crunching)
- I mean you can just drop it off.
- How would you feel about that?
- Just drop it off at the door.
- No, no, I wanna be a little creepy.
- I wanna mail your wife a chip in an envelope.
- Well, I know that Christy said,
"Don't let Rhett come over any more.
If he needs to bring anything let him leave it
at the door."
- And I wanna try -
- You don't have to mail stuff.
- I wanna cut out letters from a magazine
and give her a little note.
- So did you make this fruit roll up from scratch?
- [Nicole] I did.
- Because that's the only way to now put...
- [Nicole] I did.
- Sugar.
- [Nicole] I put in a little bit of sugar
just because I needed it to give it that stretch.
But it has Maldon Sea Salt sprinkled over the top.
- Molton sea salt?
- [Nicole] Maldon.
- Maldon?
- [Nicole] Yeah, it's fancy stuff.
It's like those little pyramid shaped salt crystals.
- Salty, chewy, fruity. Still sweet.
- I love sweet-salty things man.
- [Link] Yeah, like I said -
- [Rhett] I don't know what to do.
- [Link] You can't get rid of the sweetness
because there's fruitiness.
- [Nicole] The only way you can get
the texture of a fruit roll up
is if you add just a little bit of sugar
so it gives you that stretch and taffy like consistency.
- This is -
- You know they make underwear out of this stuff.
(laughter)
- I won't mail your wife any of that.
- That is my -
- [Rhett] I'm only mailing her one chip.
I don't know how this became
a conversation about what I'm gonna mail your wife.
- Yeah, don't do that.
- Yeah, I'm gonna stop right now.
But I will mail that chip.
- This is really good and -
- It's really good.
- And in someways it's better but it's not -
- It's not a revelation.
- It's not a surprise.
- This is a revelation.
- And I think we've got to say
we're more excited, and therefore we prefer -
- I agree with this summation.
- The sweet a vinegar chips.
Did you predict this Nostradamus?
- [Nicole] 59% of the MB's thought you would like
the sugar and vinegar chips better.
- You know us so well.
- Now you're on the winning side.
You're out of the red.
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- All right this one goes out to all of the folks
who've ever thought their snow cone was too sweet.
Or their Bloody Mary was too salty.
Be careful what you wish for cause now we've got
salty snow cones and sweet Bloody Mary's.
- Ahhh, where do you wanna go first?
- [Rhett] Let's drink second.
- Yeah, you know what they say
Bloody Mary before snow cone, never -
- Use the phone.
(laughter)
- [Together] Snow cone before Bloody Mary.
- Call Gary!
- Gary. Hey, get over here man.
It's happening again.
All right so we got a salty snow cone, aww man.
- I feel like a deer.
- A deer in the woods on a salt lick.
- I love a salt lick.
I licked a salt lick one time in a cow pasture.
- Are you Rhett? Do you like salt?
- I'm a salt boy.
- I was there when you licked that salt lick.
- Why didn't you lick it after me?
- I did.
(laughter)
- I did.
- I mean -
- Salt licks are great, I want one at my house.
- I'm not gonna leave a salt lick hanging.
- Why can't people have salt licks in their house?
You should have a salt lick right when you walk in.
- [Rhett] I like it.
- It's like drowning in a frozen ocean.
- You think I got a deficiency?
- You must man.
- Is that why I like salt so much?
- Yeah.
- I got a mineral deficiency.
I'm like one of those people that eats dirt.
- I mean, you're gonna shrivel up if you keep up this habit.
- Yeah, it's not good for you.
- It's just not good.
- Okay so how'd you make a Bloody Mary sweet?
- [Nicole] I put dextrose and corn syrup in it.
- What's all that green stuff?
- [Nicole] I put thyme in there.
It's like my secret ingredient
that makes my Bloody Mary's really good.
- Nicole got some Bloody Mary pride y'all.
- [Nicole] I do.
- I think I got to swirl the thyme.
- [Nicole] Oh and that's a maple bacon for ya.
- Maple bacon, oh yeah, you gotta get that thyme
evenly distributed.
- You got a maple rim too?
- [Nicole] Yeah, oh the rim is celery sugar.
Instead of celery salt.
- Okay. - Okay.
- [Link] All right.
- It taste like you just tasted spaghetti sauce
before it was finished being made.
- Yeah, very spicy. And then you...
Taste some of that, ooh, that sweet sweet bacon, it's good.
- The bacon's good.
- Bloody Mary good too.
I don't drink enough Bloody Mary's
to have an expectation that's been subverted here.
I just like it.
- I do drink Bloody Mary's
with Gary.
And I -
- I'm voting for that.
- Really?
- Yeah.
I like it.
- We only got one golden tongue man.
- I know -
- I feel strongly about this.
Like I feel -
(Laughter)
I think that you could -
- It's salty ice Rhett.
- Yes! Exactly!
Now you're on board.
(laughter)
- No.
- Think about, no, no.
You break this out, I guaran-damn-tee you,
that if you break this thing out
at like a snow cone place, all the adults
who are mineral deficient like me
will just come up and just start licking on it.
- But there's so many sweet drinks
to make this one sweet and it's still so spicy?
- [Rhett] But I think I got -
- It's good man.
- But I'm the Bloody Mary authority.
If you serve this at a place
that people enjoy Bloody Mary's
and people who like spicy, tangy things.
It takes all the spicy and the tang out.
- Which one do you like better?
Let's let Nicole be the tie breaker.
- Okay. That's fine.
- [Nicole] Are you guys gonna get mad at me?
- Yeah. - No.
- Only one of us will be mad at you.
- [Woman 2] The comment section might.
You're putting Nicole in a really hard position right now.
- Have you tasted both of them?
- [Nicole] Yes I have.
- Well what's your preference?
- [Nicole] Ooohhhh, okay,
I really like the Bloody Mary.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, okay Rhett, we respect your opinion,
but you have a deficiency brother.
- All right.
- [Nicole] 70% of the MB's thought that you'd like
the sweet Bloody Mary better.
- See and they're on my side too.
And you know what, you earned, ooohhhh man.
A compliment from two Fabio's.
- You are...
So where is he from?
- He's from, not from America.
- You are so beautiful.
- I look into your eyes and I see
edible underwear.
- I would like to mail you one solitary chip.
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